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by Bayart 1727 days ago
Controls should be exerted on companies and institutions, not people. Case in point : the government has no place telling you how long your kids can play, but you might need the government to get rid of highly damaging practices like loot boxes.
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> Controls should be exerted on companies and institutions, not people.

Not sure there is a clear distinction. Companies and institutions are owned and ran by people.

You can run a one-man corporation if you like.

It's my fault for being unclear. And really, companies and institutions are people, legally speaking. They have moral personality, at least in Civil Law.

In any case, they operate with a different incentive structure than single private citizens do. I don't think it's a revolutionary thing to say that companies don't, in fact, behave like physical people do.

Exactly - selling heroin to kids (outside of medicinal purposes) should be illegal. Whether it is a "company" (co-operating group of individuals) or an individual seems irrelevant.